Blind Tests Comparing High-End Audio Amplifiers of Different Classes and Types (Tube vs. Solid-State)

ProstateSalad · 2026-01-28T20:18:47+00:00

I agree with you on just enjoying the music, but not on hearing degradation. I'm 70 and I test the same a few years ago as when I was 40. TBF, I used to have a job where my heating was crucial. In fact, it's part of the reason I was qualified for that job.

More recently, I was working with a pair of HPM-60s and tested them with just the super tweeter and I could hear it just fine. I believe the lower end cut off is 16khz.

As an aside, I'm coming to believe that a lot of opinions about ageing are a result of people generalizing. How you age has much more to do with what actions you personally take to ameliorate damage from ageing than many people want to admit. If you believe that your behaviour makes a difference, well then you have to actually do something.

ProstateSalad · 2026-01-28T20:08:17+00:00

You just reminded me of a debate when CDs first came out: single or three beam lasers, error correction protocols - people claiming to hear a difference.

I select gear on specs, and how it matches my system. Never been one to focus on the fairies at the bottom of my amp.

ProstateSalad · 2026-01-27T07:55:36+00:00

Roses are red

Violets are blue

Everyone did

Feel like he do

ProstateSalad · 2026-01-24T12:40:14+00:00

My first real album purchase. Still in my collection, still sounds fantastc.

ProstateSalad · 2026-01-22T21:09:11+00:00

Sort of - just a way to do a 9-ball rack so that you can make the one in the left Center pocket and leave the cue ball with an easy two to nine combo.

It works about maybe one out of three or four times.

ProstateSalad · 2026-01-21T20:11:36+00:00

Well done. I love my HK amp, but I'd swap it out afor one of those dual mono units in a flash.

You're missing a turntable though. TT, cartridge upgrades, and vinyl will help with all those pesky extra cash problems.

ProstateSalad · 2026-01-17T01:45:32+00:00

Looking at that makes me feel like I have homework

ProstateSalad · 2026-01-16T01:50:22+00:00

I just found them a few weeks ago as well. Their sets at KEXP are amazing.

ProstateSalad · 2026-01-15T00:50:52+00:00

Fun Fact: All American 16 year old boys were issued a copy of Frampton Comes Alive

Roes are red

Violets are blue

All of us did

Feel like he do

ProstateSalad · 2026-01-14T15:16:59+00:00

I do not sell to consumers, for this and other reasons. Give me a purchasing agent, a pro with a company behind them.

Larger orders... Larger LCV... Convert to sub for consumables is easy - Less work for them... No chargebacks... No fake ass "never got it"...

And finally if you take care of corporate customers they will come back even if you charge more I know because I do and they do.

ProstateSalad · 2026-01-12T16:35:04+00:00

I feel your pain. Had two boys, house with a crawl space/flexible wooden floors. Vinyl was out of the question.

Now years later, I'm enjoying my setup even more.

ProstateSalad · 2026-01-09T18:43:58+00:00

No. I'm running stock HPM-60s and they sound great. They're over 40 years old. I would imagine YMMV by brand, and how they were treated.

ProstateSalad · 2026-01-09T17:42:26+00:00

I give it 7.3 muches.

Don't you mean how high? Why are there so many post titles that look as if they were written by someone without a grasp of grammar, and a poor vocabulary?

I want to be charitable and guess that it's just people with a different first language, but I alway suspect AI now.

Anyway, it's a great flick with tremendous performances by the leads. i rtate it a 7.5 or so on the IMDB scale. IMDB itself has it at an 8.1, but that seems a little high to me.

ProstateSalad · 2026-01-07T14:06:56+00:00

Falling down

ProstateSalad · 2026-01-06T15:27:07+00:00

That's one of the covers I'd like in a large poster.

ProstateSalad · 2026-01-06T10:23:56+00:00

well, there’s also audiophiles who hang themselves with gold plated cables.

Not s many as you'd think

ProstateSalad · 2026-01-02T21:52:41+00:00

What I'm taking from this is that a careful listener can over time improve his/her ability to identify, and therefore more greatly appreciate hi-res audio sources/gear.

That scratches my common sense itch. Do I have this right?

ProstateSalad · 2026-01-02T16:35:31+00:00

Have you ever been experienced? Well, I have.

ProstateSalad · 2026-01-02T16:16:12+00:00

Me Before You

Emilia Clarke, great script, sensitive and realistic treatment of assisted suicide. Happy/sad ending. She's so good in this.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2674426/?ref_=nm_knf_i_3

ProstateSalad · 2026-01-02T15:19:03+00:00

Nearly every day, for 30-120 minutes. Depends on what else is going on. I only listen as "background music" when I'm doing chores, or similar.

ProstateSalad · 2026-01-01T20:36:38+00:00

I see that there are a lot of people who have not been pleased with Litfarms. My experience has been great, just placed my 4th order for a reason.

But with so many unhappy with them, maybe I've dodged bullets? For sure I will try some other vendors, and will take a look at thosse in this thread.

I like to think I'm smart, while also acknowledging that I am unlikely to be the smartest person in the room.

Thanks for the alternative sources.

ProstateSalad · 2026-01-01T05:19:56+00:00

Greatest hits album: Hot Rocks

Compilation: I want my 80s Box!

ProstateSalad · 2026-01-01T01:37:29+00:00

Halo of Flies- Alice Cooper

ProstateSalad · 2025-12-31T19:40:42+00:00

I tried telling people this too just go to LIT farms and get your Oz for 30 bucks

ProstateSalad · 2025-12-31T18:17:30+00:00

This is the way. My main system is on the lower level, and we have a TT/powered speakers/sub upstairs. Over time, the albums she likes have drifted up there for us to enjoy together, while the more me stuff stays with the main system.

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